[HN Gopher] Effective YouTube Kids: Quality Content in Small Doses
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Effective YouTube Kids: Quality Content in Small Doses
Author : philips
Score : 33 points
Date : 2024-07-01 02:20 UTC (2 days ago)
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| Dramatize wrote:
| I found the best way to deal with YouTube is to download the
| videos and airdrop them to my son's iPad.
|
| This way he can still view a selected range of Minecraft videos
| without getting stuck in the cesspool of '100 days as a chicken'
| playlists.
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| Plex, Jellyfin, and similar solutions where you rip content for
| your own media collection and serve in a constrained manner can
| solve for this. App gets installed on kid's device, and you use
| the cli or use the web interface to push it into the storage
| system it's streamed from.
|
| (i do this, it is very straightforward and keeps my kids off of
| Youtube)
| KaiserPro wrote:
| You can't leave your kids alone with youtube.
|
| Its addictive and stuffed full of advertising. I'm lucky that I
| have BBC and netflix to choose from, sure its annoying them
| watching shit on repeat, but at least they are not one click away
| from something nasty, or downright bullshit.
|
| If there is something good, we watch it together. But there is no
| way they are allowed it on their own
| freitzkriesler2 wrote:
| This , you have to be a really bad parent to trust YouTube with
| a child especially after elsagate. The fact that people here
| think otherwise is testament to broader culture problem.
| mixmastamyk wrote:
| No one has yet mentioned the surveillance aspect yet, so I
| will. Yes, they were caught spying on children too.
|
| https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/technology/google-
| youtube...
| philips wrote:
| YouTube Kids is a different constrained environment - different
| apps and websites from YouTube. And with the configuration I
| lay out in this blog post the kids can only play videos you
| explicitly share with them. It is the easiest analogue to
| having just a VHS player and a home video collection that I can
| think of.
|
| Regardless, I agree in general the defaults on YouTube are
| terrible for everyone including kids.
| johnsillings wrote:
| great channel recommendations.
| guywithahat wrote:
| Incidentally I've been working on a parental controls app, which
| has some YouTube specific functionality. Currently it only gives
| you the ability to block YouTube shorts, but more channel-
| specific functionality is coming https://www.parentcontrols.win/
|
| Admittedly I think it'll be hard for youtube (and similar sites)
| to build proper child filters and habits. Not because they're bad
| people or anything, just because it's too opposed to their
| incentives
| feoren wrote:
| > Not because they're bad people or anything, just because it's
| too opposed to their incentives
|
| What a ridiculous turn of phrase. "I kill and eat other human
| beings, not because I'm a bad person or anything, just because
| it is my incentive to do so." Those incentives are self-
| imposed. Having self-created incentives to do bad things is
| what _makes you_ a bad person.
| philips wrote:
| I have thought about building something like this but it felt
| like building an ad blocking business: constantly doing wack a
| mole or fighting lawsuits.
|
| How are you thinking about those problems?
| philips wrote:
| Woah! Happy to see this on the frontpage.
|
| I have enjoyed exploring the intersection between technology and
| parenting. It can be difficult to find great applications and
| tools to use with my kids. But, there are things out there that
| are awesome and aren't exploitive.
|
| I have found that one of my principles while parenting young
| children in this digital age is trying to teach my kids that they
| can use technology but we need to make active choices on how to
| use it. The defaults aren't necessarily the best. In that vein I
| also put together a list of mobile apps too:
| https://abparenting.substack.com/p/mobile-games-for-playing-...
|
| I would love to hear other creative uses and configurations
| people have for technology with their kids.
| 6510 wrote:
| I liked this one
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| https://www.youtube.com/shorts/U0VAswvOaJY
| viraptor wrote:
| I've tried to work with the YT app, but it's got weird/bad
| failure modes with the allowed content. In the end, for the
| occasional screen I found Khan Academy Kids can be even more
| engaging and a better curated experience.
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